Hartman Rector Jr.

Hartman Rector Jr. (20 August 1924-6 November 2018) was a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the LDS Church from 3 October 1975 to 1 October 1994.

Biography
Hartman Rector Jr. was born in Moberly, Missouri in 1924, and he served in the US Navy from 1943 to 1947 before serving as a naval aviator in the Korean War. After his return from service in Hawaii, he was converted to Mormonism, and he was baptized on 24 February 1952 in Japan. In 1968, he was called to the First Council of the Seventy, serving from 1968 to 1976; he then served in the First Quorum of the Seventy from 1975 to 1994. He believed that homosexuality was comparable to drugs, alcohol, and pornography as an addiction, and he also opposed abortion and vasectomies. In 1994, he became an emeritus general authority and was released from full-time ecclesiastical duties, and he died in Orem, Utah in 2018.